Cane Toads is a great documentary about these little beasties. Not only does it give a good overview of the cane toad saga in Australia, but it also includes interviews with some really bizarre people (the guy imitating the mating calls of the cane toad is particularly amusing).
Luckily most new cellphones will come with an optional 17" monitor (and handy carrying straps, allowing you to wear it like a backpack). The only problem is looking at something strapped to your back, but I suppose you could wear it in the front (upside down).
This seems much better than my idea of putting a big drain in the floor and using giant sprinklers hanging from the ceilings to clean my house; sort of like living in a giant dishwasher. Probably easier on the electronic devices too.
Can you live on the salary that you would be getting? If the company tanks in a year, can you find another job to pay your bills? Do you have enough money/magic credit card money to survive for a few months if the company tanks and you only get unemployment for awhile? Is there the potential to make piles more money at the new place later, or can you continue there happily at the salary they are offering? Will the other company wait a few days so you can do a naked can-can dance for your old boss first? (Ok the last one might be more or less important, depending on how things have been going with your boss). Seriously though, you probably don't want to burn bridges, no matter how tempting the naked can-can dance is.
Weigh all your choices, and if you can afford it (and think you will enjoy the new job) then go for it. If you can't afford it, make sure you aren't piddling money away, and then see again if you can afford the new job. It is hard to put a pricetag on happiness.
And this is why you should never, ever, talk on two cellphones at once.
Next up we learn how to get a heated pizza with two cellphones. Simply call pizza places until you find one willing to trade a pizza for one of your cellphones and baddbingbaddaboom, you get your hot pizza.
I keep hoping solar towers will take off, but it looks like these guys might run out of money before they can get their full-scale plant off the ground:-(
That is an interesting idea, except that transmitting the hot water is a pain. For people living close to the plant, they would get water that would probably fry you in a few seconds (not so good for showers), while people further away wouldn't get any heat at all, since the heat would have been lost while in transit along the uninsulated pipes. You could insulate the whole system, but that would add quite a bit to the cost. One other issue is you would also have to deal with usage problems (too much extra hot water at 2am, and not enough when everyone turns on their shower at 8am). Now if power was more decentralized (say, each section of town had its own powerplant) this would be more viable.
Somehow I have this horrible feeling that Dentists here in the US would do everything in their power to make sure these things never get used; think of how much money they would lose if no one got cavities anymore.
Luckily I bet I can improvise one of my one; all I need is an old lamp cord, a football mouthpiece, and some high fluoride gel toothpaste.
Henceforth I will reconsider what I would call a bad day after watching this (should be safe work). Sadly I can't find my tape of the show as aired on tv (the tv clip was better, if anyone has it let me know), but this little animation gives you an idea of someone who really has had a bad day. Yes indeed dear readers this is a clip of a Mexican zoo worker who was unfortunate enough to be standing behind an elephant when it backed up and started to sit down, ramming said worker's head up his butt. No matter how bad my day may get, I can truthfully say that it isn't as bad as having my head shoved up the backside of an elephant. I can't imagine that the elephant was really pleased either.
This could actually be really good news then; Disney already owns the rights to pretty much all of the Pixar stuff, so now any sequals (The Incredibles comes to mind) would actually be good!
Disney already owns the rights to pretty much all of Pixar's works:
Disney noted in its statement that it owns rights to all the Pixar movies, as well as two more animated features yet to be delivered -- "The Incredibles" due this year and "Cars", expected in 2005.
Disney will distribute those two films with Pixar getting its share of the profits. In addition, Disney probably will be able to make the sequels to all the Pixar films made under the current agreement, paying Pixar only limited royalties.
Now if Pixar (as it is today) is in charge of later remakes they will actually be good; I shudder to think how Disney would do making sequals to The Incredibles or even Finding Nemo. This would be a good thing as long as Disney doesn't destroy Pixar.
Yeah I always worry about that too: if your RAID card dies, it could hose the disks attached to it as well (not likely, but possible). For a cheap solution I simply use a drive in an external drive case (something like $30 at CompUSA) and connect it via USB. Just mirror what I care about, the hard part being that I need to remember to bring the drive home (I leave it at work normally) and mirror now and then.
I can't wait until the bids start flying in on the truckload of gravel I just put up for auction on ebay. I won't even need a truck to go pick it up; I figure I can just shovel it straight into boxes and leave them on his curb for the postman to pick up.
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Cane Toads is a great documentary about these little beasties. Not only does it give a good overview of the cane toad saga in Australia, but it also includes interviews with some really bizarre people (the guy imitating the mating calls of the cane toad is particularly amusing).
I saw Alien 3 with my friend; he had free passes. I remember at the end feeling ripped off, even though I saw it for free. I want my two hours back!
You sneak one or two before you decide to buy.
Where are these free "try before you buy" hookers of which you speak?
Thats what happens when you don't have a good prenuptual agreement.
Time to fire the chef and take the "love" in for DNA testing to prove it belongs to him?
Luckily most new cellphones will come with an optional 17" monitor (and handy carrying straps, allowing you to wear it like a backpack). The only problem is looking at something strapped to your back, but I suppose you could wear it in the front (upside down).
I think I will wait a bit to upgrade my home machine; there should be piles of really nice used ones hitting the market when Vista comes out.
This seems much better than my idea of putting a big drain in the floor and using giant sprinklers hanging from the ceilings to clean my house; sort of like living in a giant dishwasher. Probably easier on the electronic devices too.
Weigh all your choices, and if you can afford it (and think you will enjoy the new job) then go for it. If you can't afford it, make sure you aren't piddling money away, and then see again if you can afford the new job. It is hard to put a pricetag on happiness.
Next up we learn how to get a heated pizza with two cellphones. Simply call pizza places until you find one willing to trade a pizza for one of your cellphones and baddbingbaddaboom, you get your hot pizza.
I keep hoping solar towers will take off, but it looks like these guys might run out of money before they can get their full-scale plant off the ground :-(
That is an interesting idea, except that transmitting the hot water is a pain. For people living close to the plant, they would get water that would probably fry you in a few seconds (not so good for showers), while people further away wouldn't get any heat at all, since the heat would have been lost while in transit along the uninsulated pipes. You could insulate the whole system, but that would add quite a bit to the cost. One other issue is you would also have to deal with usage problems (too much extra hot water at 2am, and not enough when everyone turns on their shower at 8am). Now if power was more decentralized (say, each section of town had its own powerplant) this would be more viable.
I wonder if I can get a bounty from AOL for bringing you "back in" ?
Luckily I bet I can improvise one of my one; all I need is an old lamp cord, a football mouthpiece, and some high fluoride gel toothpaste.
No problemo.
Henceforth I will reconsider what I would call a bad day after watching this (should be safe work). Sadly I can't find my tape of the show as aired on tv (the tv clip was better, if anyone has it let me know), but this little animation gives you an idea of someone who really has had a bad day. Yes indeed dear readers this is a clip of a Mexican zoo worker who was unfortunate enough to be standing behind an elephant when it backed up and started to sit down, ramming said worker's head up his butt. No matter how bad my day may get, I can truthfully say that it isn't as bad as having my head shoved up the backside of an elephant. I can't imagine that the elephant was really pleased either.
If only they had let the DOJ break them up they wouldn't have his problem.....
Was that really loud splashing sound made by all of America's PR firms wetting themselves at once?
Hemlock is the way to go. How you hide your ebay purchase of hemlock is left as an exercise for the reader.
Makes me wonder if Nemesis has any planets revolving around it?
This could actually be really good news then; Disney already owns the rights to pretty much all of the Pixar stuff, so now any sequals (The Incredibles comes to mind) would actually be good!
(Taken from here)
Now if Pixar (as it is today) is in charge of later remakes they will actually be good; I shudder to think how Disney would do making sequals to The Incredibles or even Finding Nemo. This would be a good thing as long as Disney doesn't destroy Pixar.
Have you started drinking or taking drugs since seeing the questions sent to you by Slashdot? Are you emotionally scarred and bitter now?
Yeah I always worry about that too: if your RAID card dies, it could hose the disks attached to it as well (not likely, but possible). For a cheap solution I simply use a drive in an external drive case (something like $30 at CompUSA) and connect it via USB. Just mirror what I care about, the hard part being that I need to remember to bring the drive home (I leave it at work normally) and mirror now and then.
I can't wait until the bids start flying in on the truckload of gravel I just put up for auction on ebay. I won't even need a truck to go pick it up; I figure I can just shovel it straight into boxes and leave them on his curb for the postman to pick up.